This document showcases artwork and projects from AS220 Youth, a nonprofit arts program for youth in Providence, Rhode Island. It includes paintings, prints, photographs, and collages by participating youth artists. Quotes from several youth describe AS220 Youth as a supportive place where people can be themselves and pursue any creative idea, with staff willing to help them realize any vision. One project involved masks and photographs to anonymously capture youth at the Rhode Island Training School.

1. AS220 YOUTH:
EXAMPLES OF
ARTWORK
115 empire street
providence, ri 02912
Maya Finoh
AMST0150K
Culture, Communities, and Change

2. “moon
cycles”
–
ysanel
torres
[painting]
“AS220 Youth is a great place for
people to be themselves and do
anything they want to do in life. It is
limitless.”
– Jamale Jay

3. “skateboardin
g is the
fountain of
youth”
–
kyle collins
[print]

4. “batman”
–
henry
guerrero
[painting]
[AS220] is like one of them places where it’s like if
you’re not sure you can ask; and if they not sure,
they’ll find out the answer.” – John Bhogal

5. “patterns”
–
julia
goncalves
[painting]

6. “collage”
–
mikaela
gonzaga
“AS220 is a second home. Everybody here cares about what
you think. No ideas are crazy to the staff here. You can come
up with the craziest idea ever, and they will support you as
long as you are sure that it is what you want to do.”
– Indira Miller

7. “snake
(#1)” –
boantheng
tanakhone
[print]

8. street signs
(current
as220
youth
project)
[project] this street
sign project for
the city of
Providence was
birthed from the
creation of
various “collage
masks” for youth
in the Rhode
Island Training
School to wear
and be
photographed. it
has grown into
this full-fledged
art project that will
be displayed at

9. “are we here yet?” – a project by the Square Mile Multiple Pathway Program

10. “are we
here yet?”
[#1]
[photo] some
photos of a
Central Falls
student in the
Square Mile
program.

11. “are we
here yet?”
[#2]
[photos] some
photos of a
Central Falls
students in the
Square Mile
program.

12. masks for
youth at the
Rhode
Island
Training
School
[project] masks
used by youth in
the Rhode Island
Training School to
be photographed
with privacy.

13. portraits
from the
Rhode
Island
Training
School [#1]
[photo] to protect
the privacy of
those in the
Rhode Island
Training School ,
the AS220 Youth
photography
class within the
correctional
facility took
photos of the
youth in positions
and stances that
protected their
identities.

14. portraits
from the
Rhode
Island
Training
School [#2]
[photo] to protect
the privacy of
those in the
Rhode Island
Training School ,
the AS220 Youth
photography
class within the
correctional
facility took
photos of the
youth in positions
and stances that
protected their
identities.

15. “gone but
never
forgotten”
–
tribute
[one part of the mural
covering the walls of
one room in the
as220 youth studio] a
large mural in the
as200 youth
studio includes
tributes to as220
youth students
who’ve passed –
because art
endures.

16. credit
◦ all photos of artwork taken either at the as220 youth studio or from the
as220 youth website (student art portfolios).
http://youth.as220.org/portfolios/
◦ quotes taken from the as220 youth program “about” booklet
http://issuu.com/as220youth/docs/as220-youth-program/
13?e=7532735/1846463
& an interview of as220 youth member John Bhogal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am_bgffj_KU